In the past few weeks, I would be willing to bet you’ve found yourself wondering, “Will Sandra Bullock win an Oscar? I mean, she’s already won the SAG and the Golden Globe; all signs point to yes. But Helen Miren is nominated in the same category. How can you out-act…
Jack’s MannequinHouse of BluesFebruary 17, 2010 Better than: spending a day sweaty and dehydrated, getting trampled and crowd-surfed on at Warped Tour. It’s incredibly cliché to say, but you’d never know Andrew McMahon survived Leukemia if you got the chance to see one of his shows. From the opening chords…
With so much at stake for the big players in Miami like Peyton Manning, Drew Brees and The Who, Sunday’s matchup is more than just another football game. The stakes are just as high, though, for every wing joint in the country as they prepare for an ass-kicking the likes of…
I don’t know about you, but nothing screams comedy to me more than a 7-foot-1-inch, 325-pound basketball player. Whether he was joking or not, Shaq’s performance in Kazaam certainly left me laughing…at him, not with him. This time, having probably thought better of it himself, he is leaving the comedy…
Perhaps the exact reason Christopher Ciccone would not want you to give his art attention is arguably the only one that would cause you to give it a second look: he’s Madonna’s brother. Yes, that Madonna. The jilted sibling of one of pop culture’s greatest icons is a person too!…
What do a burrito stand, a Japanese high school room, a vase of tulips and an old movie theater have in common? They are all subjects in the photography featured in Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery’s forthcoming exhibit, Hidden Treasures. The exhibit will sample from PDNB’s archives and showcase 14…
For the most part, famous artwork has been relegated to one predominant medium: canvas. However, American Moderns on Paper, an exhibit set to begin at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth on Saturday, dares to suggest that perhaps some of the finest and most pioneering works of American avant-garde…
When Equus opened in London’s West End in 2007, the fact that Harry Potter himself (or Daniel Radcliffe, as he’d probably prefer to be called) was to be naked onstage caused a great deal of controversy. It is clear, however, that these individuals are in no way familiar with the…
First of all, for those of you who have failed to “remember the Alamo,” shame on you. Secondly, if the details surrounding the players of the 13-day siege–heroes Bowie, Travis and Crockett, along with the fiendish General Santa Anna–have managed to escape you, the Casa Manana Theater will present Alamo…
For those people who thought Trey Parker’s only remarkable creative achievements are his contributions to South Park…think again. While he was a student at The University of Colorado, Parker’s first commercial success came after he penned the black comedy Cannibal! The Musical, a kitschy and humorous account of the criminally…
I find myself increasingly surprised each and every time I find out about some other activity or entertainment form that is relatable–or at least forced to be so–to the performance art of burlesque. From drawing to singing to literature and stand-up comedy, burlesque seems to find a way to encompass…
Beginning Saturday, Dallas art fans and fanatics will have the fortunate opportunity to behold the imagination of the late Houston artist Virgil Grotfeldt. Virgil Grotfeldt: Memories and Transformations will feature the works of a man who used “the anthropological, sociological and geological composition of our world” as the basis for…
There are certain sports moments from years past that, whenever I reflect on their outcomes, reduce me to an epic level of grumpiness. The Dallas Cowboys and the New York Giants (2008 playoffs, anyone?), basically anything and anyone associated with the New York Yankees (seriously, is there a snottier franchise…
I think it’s possible someone has found a workable solution to ending illiteracy: Give a book to a naked chick and have her read it aloud. Hell, even require people to pay to hear, er, watch it. On Saturday and Sunday, at the Luminarte Design Studio, La Divina Productions is…
I always thought the most relevant thing Pauly Shore could ever do after the turn of the century was–just like most celebrities whose fame peaked in the ’90s–appear on the newest season of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew. Or get his very own help-me-find-fake-double-d-sized-love dating show (thanks, VH1). Surprisingly enough,…
Documentary addicts and hippies alike will be in good company when the Thin Line Film Festival hits the eclectic and artsy Downtown Square in Denton this week. Now in its third year, the Texas filmmakers’ festival will kick off on Wednesday with an appropriately blistery screening of Josh Fox’s Gasland,…
I’ll admit it. When I first heard the Dallas Opera was putting on Cosi Fan Tutte, I was unaware A) that it was an opera at all, and B) that it was composed by Mozart. Having now figured this out, my high opinion of Wolfgang has begun to wane. Cosi…
